Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:00:14 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Randall R Schulz cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin 1.3.20-1 - strange problems with long command lines in nt4 In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030312153011.046de318@pop3.cris.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Igor, > > At 15:24 2003-03-12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Willis, Matthew wrote: > > > >... > > > > > which will run when I pass long arguments using bash.exe as my shell. I can > > > also pass long arguments to this program under cmd.exe. The only difference > > > seems to be that bash.exe fully expands argv[0] to the full win32 path name > > > and cmd.exe leaves it as myecho.exe. In both cases I was able to > > use command > > > lines over 2000 bytes long without problems. > > > >Matt, > > > >Just got another idea. See if this helps: > > > > I believe the @argFileName syntax only works when a non-Cygwin program > invokes a Cygwin program. > > I cannot make the example given in the user guide section you mention > work as shown (under BASH). It does work when run from CMD.exe. Randall, I believe we *were* talking about stracing the offending program under cmd.exe... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/